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ITH hills and heights about it rolled 
There spreads a peerless reach of bay, 
Outreaching arms benign to hold 

All fleets that brave the world's highway. 



There Tamalpais against the sky, 
A sleeping maiden by the sea, 

Dreams, as the stately ships drift by, 
Of all the mighty days to be. 

And San Francisco on its hills, 
A phoenix city wrought of flame, 

With strange prophetic promise thrills, 
And heart-beats quicken at its name. 






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The sunrise shore swells from the tide V* 0\ 
To Oakland and the Piedmont heights, * ^ 

With beauty gleaming far and wide 
O'er misty lands of rare delights. 

And Berkeley's hills take up the chain 
That rings the bay with splendor rare, 

And miles on miles of far-spread plain 

Are thronged with homes and gardens fair. 

The campanile's slender shaft 

Amid the college halls upsprings. 
And winds from seaward swell and waft 

The golden song that from it sings. 

Oh golden song, prophetic notes 

That drift at evening from the tower, 

About the land your message floats. 
Of fairer life and larger power. 

The sun sinks in the Golden Gate 

And all the glory of the west 
With banners of empurpled state 

Is imaged on the water's breast. 



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Oh Golden Gate, wide flung to greet 
The commerce of the East and West, 

Here shall the world to-morrow meet 
Upon its never-ceasing quest. 

Here shall the ships with silks and jade 

• And tea and spice find sheltering bay, 
Here shall the endless tide of trade 
Go rolling forth to feed Cathay. 

Oh Golden Gate, Oh Golden song, 
Oh promise of unreckoned things, 

The vast Pacific wastes prolong 

The burden that your promise brings, — 

Of art that out of commerce grows 

Where East meets West across the sea. 

Of beauty, as from thorns the rose. 
Of lofty culture here to be. 

Arise, oh dreamers by the Gate, 

Awake, the chimes have rung the hour ; 

You stand upon the shores of fate 

And in your hands is boundless power! 




KEELER CALIFORNIA LEAFLET SERIES 

Number One 

Copyright 1920 by 

Tlie Live Oak Publishing Company? 

Berkeley, California 



